who has died from cancer aged 58, was a popular comedian known for his deadpan delivery on television panel shows such as Have I Got News for You with Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, QI, and as a team captain on Jimmy Carr’s 8 Out of 10 Cats; he also drew enthusiastic reviews for touring shows such as Lockipedia, its title a play on the internet site that he claimed to despise.
Part of the Lockipedia routine involved a section known as “audience battleships” in which he shouted out a row and seat number.
Whoever was in that seat had to give him their name, a letter and a word beginning with that letter. “So they might shout out P and pilots or pirates or something like that, and I have to do material on that,” he explained.
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